Scraps pallets to treasures

Mike Broughton calls this ten-foot table a "garden table". If it were a little smaller, it would make a great "farmhouse table" indoors. Mike built this using roof joists for legs and pallet wood for the top.

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Ian Gooch used pallet wood for an unusual project. This is an enclosure for his wifes tortoises. This is the first tortoise cage anyone has sent me!

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Doug Price sent me over an original pallet bench design someone made on his ship. (And the view from the deck!) Such a clever, utilitarian design. It looks like its being painted, but I think it looks great just like that: half-painted. Cool.

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How about a porch swing bird feeder? Dwayne Rieks, an American living in The Netherlands, tells me that it is not easy to find free pallets there. He managed to find a broken one at a job site who gave it to him without a fight,  though Dwayne says he was prepared to duke it out  because his wife wanted this bird feeder!

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Heres Marcelo Freitass pallet wood project. He made this table in his living room using only hand tools. 

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I love the muted colors on this potting bench Philip Hodge made out of old fence pickets. I like how potting benches are both functional and make great garden decorations.

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Berry Conway made his potting bench using pressure treated lumber and wood from an old fence that blew down.

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Three pallet projects from Alex Farrell, proving that pallet wood projects need not be rustic looking. These are beautiful. Bookcase, radiator cover, and mirror.

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Finally, Allan Voisin made this lamp using scrap 2x4s. Stained, then distressed with a bandsaw and Dremel tool. I love projects that find uses for cut-off that we all tend to save.

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